Drumbeat: February 6, 2012
Debate rages on when oil will peak
The discussion about the peak oil proposition is as lively as ever across the divide between proponents and opponents.
Peak oil is when the maximum rate of world oil production is reached and the rate enters termina...
Drumbeat: February 4, 2012
Gazprom 'unable to pump extra gas to Europe'
Gazprom said on Saturday it could not pump additional gas to Western Europe amid a cold snap, after EU officials said the Russian giant's deliveries had dropped in several countries.
"Gazprom at the moment ...
Drumbeat: February 3, 2012
Once, men abused slaves. Now we abuse fossil fuels
Intriguing similarities between slavery and our current dependence on fossil-fuel-powered machines struck me: both perform roughly the same functions in society (doing the hard and dirty work that no o...
Drumbeat: February 1, 2012
Thomas Homer-Dixon: Our peak oil premium
Peak oil – it’s history, right?
Everything has changed so fast.
Two years ago, the world was facing an intractable oil crisis. “By 2012, surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear,” the U...
Drumbeat: January 30, 2012
The End of Elastic Oil
The last ten years have brought a structural change to the world oil market, with changes in demand increasingly playing a role in maintaining the supply/demand balance. These changes will come at an increasingly onerous cost to...
Drumbeat: January 28, 2012
BP emails reveal company veiling spill rate estimates from well even as rig sank
NEW ORLEANS — On the day the Deepwater Horizon sank, BP officials warned in an internal memo that if the well was not protected by the blow-out preventer at the drill si...
Drumbeat: January 27, 2012
Everything You Know About Peak Oil Is Wrong
We’ve been warned before. Four decades ago this year, five scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published an influential set of predictions regarding the sustainability of human progres...
Drumbeat: January 25, 2012
Oil Supply as a Strategic Risk
Concerns about the climate have not inspired a lot of action lately on global energy policy. Now two professors are arguing that supply concerns and rising oil prices ought to be enough to get governments moving, even if ...
Drumbeat: January 23, 2012
Obama to tout natural gas benefits in State of Union
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama will encourage the country's booming natural gas output in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, while defending his administration's energy record, according ...
Drumbeat: January 21, 2012
Growing U.S. energy output a threat to Canada
While the media fixates on the political spin around the Obama government’s rejection of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, there’s another, more important element to this story that has been grossly...
Drumbeat: January 20, 2012
Fossil fuel subsidies: a tour of the data
One of the most surprising and alarming issues in the climate and energy arena is the fact that the fossil fuels causing global warming continue to receive substantial government support, making them artificial...
Drumbeat: January 18, 2012
Oil demand falling, IEA warns
Oil demand is falling for the first time since the global economic crisis of 2008-2009, the International Energy Agency said.
The IEA warned in its monthly report on Wednesday that mild weather, high oil prices and a risi...
